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Certificate authority compromises and the broken PKI trust model.
"The CA system trusts over 600 organizations to issue certificates for any domain, making the weakest CA the security ceiling."
Analysis of the HTTPS Certificate Ecosystem by Zakir Durumeric et al. (2013)
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2504730.2504755 
Published at
2026-08-25 19:40:39 UTCEvent JSON
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"content": "Certificate authority compromises and the broken PKI trust model.\n\n\"The CA system trusts over 600 organizations to issue certificates for any domain, making the weakest CA the security ceiling.\"\n\nAnalysis of the HTTPS Certificate Ecosystem by Zakir Durumeric et al. (2013)\n\nhttps://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2504730.2504755\n\nhttps://media.sambent.dev/img/1a66ae09bae379bb.jpg",
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